Thursday, January 5, 2012

On New Year's Eve President Obama, threw the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights in a paper shredder. While everyone was focused on the New Year's Eve celebrations, and while he was vacationing in Hawaii with his family, Obama signed a rights destroying $662 billion military spending bill. The law, called H.R.1540 - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, sneaks in through the backdoor the authority of the U.S. government to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without a trial.

Hopefully, the Supreme Court will get a chance to rule this garbage law is unconstitutional. The law clearly violates the 4th Amendment of the Constitution. But, until then Uncle Sam's minions can lock down any U.S. citizen in military prison and throw away the key.

Critics on both the left and right assailed this sneak attack on our Constitutional rights.

HONOLULU – President Barack Obama signed a wide-ranging defense bill into law Saturday despite having "serious reservations" about provisions that regulate the detention, interrogation and prosecution of suspected terrorists.

In a statement accompanying his signature, the president chastised some lawmakers for what he contended was their attempts to use the bill to restrict the ability of counterterrorism officials to protect the country.

Administration officials said Obama was only signing the measure because Congress made minimally acceptable changes that no longer challenged the president's terrorism-fighting ability...

This is the same bill that Ron Paul recently compared to the Patriot Act but with more dire implications. "When the bar is low enough to include political enemies, our descent into totalitarianism is virtually assured," Paul said earlier this week. "The recently passed National Defense Authorization Act continues that slip into tyranny, and in fact, accelerates it significantly."

Obama Signs Defense Authorization Bill — President Obama signed on Saturday the defense authorization bill, formally ending weeks of heated debate in Congress and intense lobbying by the administration to strip controversial provisions requiring the transfer of some terror suspects to military custody...

Many Democrats and human-rights groups have decried the bill’s language that would allow indefinite detention for suspected terrorists without a trial--including Americans arrested in the United States...

BREAKING: Obama Signs Defense Authorization Bill — This afternoon, Obama signed the controversial Defense authorization bill, despite his reservations about provisions related to the treatment of terrorism suspects. The National Journal reports: … The AP has more from the signing statement …